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A brand new ghost story in LIMN Literary & Arts Journal!
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With all the craziness this year, I haven’t written much. However, “May You Grow Old and Bitter”—penned in March—is now available in LIMN Literary & Arts Journal’s special Halloween Issue. I’m honored the story is alongside a few other specially-selected spooky pieces, among them “The Dying Eye” by Carmen Tudor. Enjoy!
Here is where the issue is located:
http://limnliterary.wordpress.com/
If, for some reason, it has moved, here are the permalinks to each piece (including mine):
Poetry: “All Hallows’ Eve” by William Trebell
http://limnliterary.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/all-hallows-eve-by-william-tribell/
Fiction: “May You Grow Old and Bitter” by Kristi Petersen Schoonover
Fiction: “Greener” by Andrew Bud Adams
http://limnliterary.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/greener-by-andrew-bud-adams/
Poetry: “Halloween Sestina” by Martin Elster
http://limnliterary.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/halloween-sestina-by-martin-elster/
Fiction: “The Dying Eye” by Carmen Tudor
http://limnliterary.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/the-dying-eye-by-carmen-tudor
Poetry: “Marsha Griggs” by Ron Heacock
http://limnliterary.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/marsha-griggs-by-ron-heacock
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SKELETONS IN THE SWIMMIN’ HOLE IN GODDARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
Posted by kristipetersenschoonover

MFAW Summer 2009 Goddard graduates in front of the Eliot Pratt Library on campus. We're holding up our bound theses. Left to right, me, Amy Tranchida, Maria Chaudhuri, and Christian Thiede.
I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, and alumni are encouraged to send copies of their books so they can be placed in the permanent collection at the Eliot Pratt Library on campus. I sent them a copy of Skeletons in the Swimmin’ Hole: Tales from Haunted Disney World.
I just received a nice e-mail thanking me and noting it would be placed in the library with a nameplate. I’m just proud my work will be part of the school and accessible to other students.
I know many of you who read my blog/newsletter are Goddard graduates, so when you have a book published, keep in mind that Goddard would welcome a copy.
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THE LOSS OF WRITER C.L. ROSS—AND WHERE TO FIND HER WORK
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Cynthia Wilson at the Cliffwalk, Newport, RI, July 2010. Photo by Melissa Martin Ellis, whom she couldn't wait to meet. The pair hit it off right away.
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A very good friend of mine, Cynthia Wilson—who wrote under the name C.L. Ross—passed away suddenly on Friday, December 10, 2010. I know that many of you on this list knew her or were familiar with her work.
Cynthia was working on a paranormal thriller series called The Llewellyn Legacy which was set in Ireland, a country she loved very much. She was thrilled to be returning to Ireland this coming February to complete the draft, and while there, she was going to be doing some paranormal investigating with her friends Mick Doyle and Ruth Deery of the Killarney Paranormal Society, of which she was a member.
She had, in the past year, built a website and invited several people to contribute to her blog on paranormal topics ranging from witchcraft to druidism to ghost stories. She was a proud member of the online pagan community WitchVox, for which she wrote many articles over the years; in addition, she had some of her short stories published in magazines and was actively working on polishing others to submit. And she had just recently discovered Twitter and was having a ball with it.
She held an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, which she had been awarded in January, 2010. Goddard is where Cynthia and I met. And we helped throw the best damn graduation party for the graduating class of January 2009 EVER…I’ll never forget us trekking all over Barre, Vermont to shop in the middle of the most brutal snow. It was me (a New Englander) and Julia (a Chicagoite)—but Cynthia the Southerner was driving the truck. Hilarious.
I decided that I would post links to where her work is available online, and also a link to her website, which for now is still up. She had just purchased the domain this year and I’m hoping against hope her password is someplace—or I can find it, because she gave it to me once but I don’t know if I kept it—so that I can renew her domain every year indefinitely. If anyone else knows where her work might have been posted, please let me know—I wanted to give everyone a chance to read what have turned out to be her last words.
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“Sunshine and Stones”
Read Short Fiction
March 28, 2010
http://www.readshortfiction.com/2010/03/sunshine-and-stones-by-cynthia-wilson/
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“Breathing Room”
Voices from the Garage
Spring 2010
http://voicesfromthegarage.com/story/breathing-room
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“The Eulogy”
The Smoking Poet-Cigar Lounge
Summer 2010
http://thesmokingpoet.tripod.com/summer2010/id7.html
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“Fixin’ the Blues” (poem)
SWAMP
Issue #2, October 4, 2008
http://www.swampwriting.com/?page_id=31
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“Purgatory” (poem)
SWAMP
Issue #2, October 4, 2008
http://www.swampwriting.com/?page_id=38
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“Murder in Frogtown” (poem)
Aquila Review
Fall 2008
http://www.tamut.edu/aquila/Text%20Files/Aquila%20Review%20Fall%202008%20(Second%20Version).pdf
(this also contains the first publication of her poem “Fixin’ the Blues”—SWAMP had retained it as a reprint)
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“Rebellious Bat” (prose poem)
The Pitkin Review
Fall 2007
http://web.goddard.edu/pitkin/archive/2007_fall/RebelliousBat.htm
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Cynthia’s C.L. Ross Website and Blog: includes many guest posts about the paranormal, witchcraft, Druidism, and legends; some of her otherwise unpublished short stories; and snippets of The Llewellyn Legacy.
There are a couple of her pieces available in expired print magazines; I just found one that I’m going to order and see if her work is in it. I’ll keep you posted.
If you wish to visit the “In Memory Page” her friends have set up on Facebook, you can do that here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/In-Memory-of-Cynthia-Wilson/
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Tags: Aquila Review, C.L. Ross, Cynthia Wilson, Goddard College, Pitkin Review, poems, Read Short Fiction, Short Stories, SWAMP, The Llewellyn Legacy